Just a bit of Mac Evangelism (about GHz PowerMacs -- they are out!)

[simX]

So I was reading at MacCentral this morning about the new PowerMac G4s and the status of the iMacs. First about the new PowerMacs.

800 MHz, 933 MHz, Dual 1 GHz. Awesome already. The 800 still has a CD-RW (wondering why not combo), but the 933 and dual both have a SuperDrive. Even better, the 800 has, STANDARD, a ATI Radeon 7500. The 933 and Dual? GEFORCE 4 MX. Who cares if it's not the full-blown retail card... this card could still blow the GeForce 3 out of the water, I bet. First on Mac, too. Apple claims the dual machine can get 115 fps out of Quake III with 32 bit graphics at a resolution of 1024x768. That sounds pretty damned awesome.

Beyond that, not much of an update, even though it's already pretty good. Hard drives are all now 7200 RPM drives, at sizes of 40, 60, and 80 gigs. Awesome. And all at the same price points -- $1599 to $2999.

About those new iMacs? 150,000 pre-orders already. 150 THOUSAND. That's a whole bunch of pre-orders -- Apple claims it's more than the amount of sales of the original iMac in 1998 alone (that would be about 4 months). Wow. Nice going Apple, I think this is another home run.

Now in some unrelated news, over here at Stanford, a new e-mail virus with the subject "New Photos From My Party!" is going around. And guess what? It doesn't affect Macs. Insert tiny snicker here. Or gargantuan laughter. Either will work. The only problem is that I'm using Outlook Express, so I'm probably at more of a risk, BUT THAT'S ONLY BECAUSE FREAKIN' APPLE HASN'T ADDED SSL SUPPORT TO MAIL.APP. When that happens, I'll be just about invulnerable. That's the other reason I'm anxious to get rid of OE. Here's to hoping 10.1.3 will have this support as thinksecret.com reported. If not, there will be some big explosions over at that rumor site's headquarters.

[julguribye]

Why not put all this text in the press3 newsletter?

[ksv]

Wrong, the 2x1 GHz PowerMacs have 2x80 GB
And 1.5 GB of RAM... which means they'll have to make new motherboards for the next revision to reach 2 GB

[buggs1a]

you say - Apple claims the dual machine can get 115 fps out of Quake III with 32 bit graphics at a resolution of 1024x768. That sounds pretty damned awesome.
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I laugh cus my pc gets more using a GF3 card and Athlon 1.33ghz or 1.47 Athlon XP 1700+ and running 1280-1024 with 512mb ram.
I've seen benchmakrs saying Q3 get liek on a pc, over 150 fps and not dual or anything more then say 1.4ghz. And a dual on mac running 1ghz would outperform per say the 1.4ghz Athlon single cpu etc.

Anyhow 115fps isn't that great on that machine i think compared to my pc or others.
i have a dual g4/450 by the way so you won't think i'm a pc only freak.

[vanguard]

I wonder if this means that Apple's PowerMac line will stand still for a little while? Conventional wisdom tells us that because apple just updated a line that it will not change it again in the next few months.

I hope this isn't true this time. Dell, (I know, bad word around here) updates their lines every week and they have some of the lowest manufacturing costs around. From that I assume that changing chips, hard drives, video cards, etc. in a computer isn't *that* expensive to do.

Anyway, it's good to see that Apple has sped up their line. I hope it doesn't mean they are resting because even with dual 1ghz machines, they have some catching up to do.

Vanguard

[RyanLang]

Sim, even though you dissed me the other day, i have 10.1.3 beta if you want it see i am nice

[simX]

Originally posted by RyanLang
Sim, even though you dissed me the other day, i have 10.1.3 beta if you want it see i am nice

Hehe, I know you're nice. I sometimes get a little too dramatic about things like pirating. I have to admit that I have done it in my past, but I don't do it any more (the only thing I have that's "pirated" on my machine are really, really old games like Crystal Quest and Pac in Time -- surely that's OK ). But I'll pass on the 10.1.3 beta -- I'll prefer to install it when it's tested and works.

Thanks, though.

[Koelling]

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Sorry about the caps but I wanted to catch attention. I don't know how much longer the poll will be up but it would be cool if we skewed their results.